Create A Christmas Carol board game
A ppt to show students how to create a snakes and ladders style board game. Scrooge's positive actions are the ladders. The negative actions are the snakes. It can be printed out to be completed using colouring pencils or it can be converted to a google doc and shared with students...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Hero Rats - a variety of resources for Functional Skills classes
Some resources I put together on the Apopo rats, who sniff out landmines and disease. My students really enjoyed this topic. Lots of information can be found on the Apopo site. This topic covered 2-3 lessonsI am not at the stage where my FS resources are mapped in to standards, as am quite new to th...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Fake News - a selection of activities for Functional Skills L1 and L2
Many of these materials are for blended/interactive use on my Google Classroom, and I have attempted to convert them to paper based for easier sharing.This is the first FS topic I am uploading. I'm not quite at the point of explicitly mapping in to standards, so this more of a 'pitched' attempt rega...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A Christmas Carol Starter Task
A Christmas Carol starter focusing on stave 1 and 2, can be a useful revision resource.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Representations and Variations Q1-2
Two texts both on elephants for Q1-3 on paper 1. One is a WWF advert and the second is from George Orwell in 1936. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Textual variations
GCSE English Language Paper 1 revision booklet
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Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Paper 1
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Textual variations
Types of Language Change
Gives examples of aspects of English which have changed over time. Includes a practice Q3 style task using podcasts as texts. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Language diversity and change
Reasons for Language Change
Runs through lots of reasons for language change including the views of Crystal, Trask, Lerer, Hitchings, Goodman, Fairclough, Lane Greene, Aitchison, McWhorter, Chen, Bailey, Deutscher, Eckert and Cameron. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Language diversity and change
Attitudes to Language Change
Covers prescriptivism and descriptivism, the role and history of dictionaries of English, Deborah Cameron's Verbal Hygiene and a practice question.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Language diversity and change
A Level Language Change: Attitudes, Why, and How.
This has been my pet project since August! Lots of reading went into it. It's a mammoth presentation split into three main sections: 1) attitudes (prescriptivism, descriptivism, dictionaries, verbal hygiene); 2) reasons for language change including theories); 3) types of language change (lexical, s...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Language diversity and change
The Handmaid's Tale Student Responses
A short student response for the presentation/significance of Serena Joy. This also includes the mark scheme and WWW/EBI space for students to assess the piece.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Yr 7-8 model language analysis paragraphs
Based on a variety of different texts ( not included). Useful as starter, examining the structure of an analytical paragraph and emboldened useful words and phrases to help pupils understand how to word their analysis. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Paper 2 q 5- Theme parks
Short extracts to practise with first, theme parks question and planning grid, ARRESTED table with examples (based on q about the merits of prom) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Paper 2
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Imagined Worlds
A Christmas Carol Starter Task
A starter task on the context introduced in stave 1,2,3 and how this links to characters, useful for year 10/11} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Photo prompts for creative writing
A collection of photographs to choose from to inspire your students' writing. I've cropped short most of my portrait shots to help them suit a slide better, and over-saturated the colour on many of the images so that they hold their tones when projected onto the board. There's a mix of urban, rural...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Writing
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Unseen Prose Practice Questions (Modern times)
Practice unseen prose questions I have made for AQA English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Course: A level lit (A)
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exemplar Paper 1, q4 City of the Beasts: extract, question and exemplar response
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Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Paper 1
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Unseen Poetry Practice- 24 mark q and 8 mark comparison q- Westminster Bridge and Winter Night Edinburgh
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Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Unseen Poetry- Helpsheet- Ideas and Techniques to Look for
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Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present